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    Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' -- Hollywood's first existential heist film

    Inception," the 39-year-old director's seventh feature film and his first foray into science fiction, combines the perception riddles of "Memento" and the sheer scale of "Dark Knight" with its $160-million budget and location shoots in Morocco, France, Japan and three other countries. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage -- he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile -- as can DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife.

    The movie may be Hollywood's first existential heist movie, and though that may not sound like typical fare for the air-conditioning months, Warners and Legendary Pictures are banking on the movie catching on as a brainy "Mission: Impossible" by way of "The Matrix." In other words, the globe-trotting movie may have had its subconscious baggage packed by Sigmund Freud, but it also carries a passport stamped by Ian Fleming. DiCaprio says Nolan is the perfect director to turn that unlikely combination into a July hit.

    Complex and ambiguous are the perfect way to describe the story," DiCaprio said in a recent phone interview. "And it's going to be a challenge to ultimately pull it off. But that is what Chris Nolan specializes in. He has been able to convey really complex narratives that work on a multitude of different layers ... and make it entertaining and engaging throughout. You look at 'Insomnia' or 'Memento,' these movies are working on so many different levels. That's his expertise; it's what he does best, as a matter of fact."

    For Nolan, "Inception" was an elusive dream. "I wanted to do this for a very long time; it's something I've thought about off and on since I was about 16," Nolan said during a break in shooting last summer. "I wrote the first draft of this script seven or eight years ago, but it goes back much further, this idea of approaching dream and the dream life as another state of reality."

    "I originally wrote it as a heist movie, and heist movies traditionally are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms," Nolan said. "They're frivolous and glamorous, and there's a sort of gloss and fun to it. I originally tried to write it that way, but when I came back to it I realized that -- to me -- that didn't work for a film that relies so heavily on the idea of the interior state, the idea of dream and memory. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes. What we found in working on 'Batman' is that it's the emotionalism that best connects the audience with the material. The character issues, those are the things that pull the audience through it and amplify the experience no matter how strange things get."

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    Next Batman Movie, tentatively titled as Batman 3 is slated for release on July 20,2012. To be directed by Chris Nolannnnnn. Hope it will break TDK opening weekend record

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    April 06, 2010 — Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) shares more information on his upcoming movie, Inception. Emma Thomas(Wife and Producer) also shares her opinions.

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    Nolan says that he grew up being a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick's 2001.

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    Quote Originally Posted by m_karthik
    Next Batman Movie, tentatively titled as Batman 3 is slated for release on July 20,2012. To be directed by Chris Nolannnnnn. Hope it will break TDK opening weekend record
    Any hint at who the villan is going to be?

    Joker again? Without Heath?

    The Riddler? Only person who's played it in the past was Jim Carey. He suited it well. :P

    The Penguin? Maybe....

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    I'm sure Joker will get a prolific actor it deserves after the magnitude of Heath's achievements.

    Will Jonathan get back to working with Chris on this film, after the Spielberg project? Or the script is already written?

    As for Inception, somehow the trailer doesn't entice as much as his other film trailers have in the past. For example, The Prestige and The Dark knight were far more hard-hitting. This seems more sleek and has all the makings of a layered Sci-Fi thriller.

    Return of the Joker and his punch dialogs, the action set-piece, promise of two-face, etc Above all the title made TDK arresting with promise of darkness even before it released. Visually, the film looked as bleak as Heat-meets-Blade Runner. So the interest and expectation went several notches up after the trailer.

    The Prestige trailer promised a face to face tussle and a conflict between two characters like TDK, and the artifice of magic in conjunction with structure of the film, namely the three acts - The Pledge, the turn and the Prestige - in connotations of three-act play/drama.

    Again, I'm not saying Inception is going to be a lesser film. But Nolan is yet to shake us with as good a trailer as his last two features..
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    Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief in the art of "extraction," stealing secrets from deep within the unconscious mind during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him valuable in corporate espionage. In one last job, he must cause an "inception" – instead of stealing an idea, he must plant one. Christopher Nolan, the director of the movie, was quoted as saying "We don't do magic. Everything in Inception has a basis in reality, except for the technology" – apparently referring to the absence of metaphysical content in the film.


    The official plot synopsis is as follows:

    "Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the unconscious mind during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime."[4]


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    Quote Originally Posted by Stiglitz
    Quote Originally Posted by m_karthik
    Next Batman Movie, tentatively titled as Batman 3 is slated for release on July 20,2012. To be directed by Chris Nolannnnnn. Hope it will break TDK opening weekend record
    Any hint at who the villan is going to be?

    Joker again? Without Heath?

    The Riddler? Only person who's played it in the past was Jim Carey. He suited it well. :P

    The Penguin? Maybe....
    Nolan says, "Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story . . . I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff."

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/hero...c-story-1.html

    On June 4, 2010 Christopher Nolan spoke with Empire magazine and confirmed that the Joker will not return. When asked he said, “No…I just don’t feel comfortable about it.”

    http://thefilmstage.com/2010/06/04/c...alks-superman/

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    I read somewhere that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 days of summer, Inception) will play the antagonist in Batman 3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
    I read somewhere that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 days of summer, Inception) will play the antagonist in Batman 3.
    // Anyone feel like this 500 DOS guy looks like younger brother of Heath ledger? I felt like that while watching 500 DOS. //

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